Described as a "big husky American-Irishman"
Naturalized at the end of 1877 in San Diego, California.
A hard-rock miner, worked at Signal Mine in Mojave county, accumulated a
stake and embarked in the cattle business in 1881.
A patch of ground at the foot of a southward trending spur of the Dragoon Mountains, near what is now called Grapevine Canyon. Built a one-room stone and adobe cabin, dug a well, bought a small bunch of cattle. He corralled them in a box canyon a mile from the cabin. Now known as the Buckley Peach Orchard.
In the fall of 1885, a band of 20-50 Apaches passed into southeastern Arizona by way of the San Bernardino Valley. Near the western entrance of Guadalupe Canon they split i to two bands. One group skirted the western flank of the Chiricahua's, the other, 12 males and one female, moved along the eastern side of the Dragoon's. The 13 killed a number of settlers in the area securing mounts and supplies.
On October 2, the band spirited away thirteen horses and four mules from Silas Bryant's ranch before moving onto Michael Noonan's ranch, four miles north of Middle Pass. Michael was shot in the chest at his doorway, finishing near his fireplace. They the. Took his livestock.
Many residents thought it may have been an act of revenge due to Michael shooting an Apache in a raid on his ranch in October 1881, when they killed 79 of his stock.
Daily Tombstone October 3, 1885...Paul McKnight, "Big Mike Noonan, Victim of Apache Terrorists in our Neighborhood", n.p., 2006
Naturalized at the end of 1877 in San Diego, California.
A hard-rock miner, worked at Signal Mine in Mojave county, accumulated a
stake and embarked in the cattle business in 1881.
A patch of ground at the foot of a southward trending spur of the Dragoon Mountains, near what is now called Grapevine Canyon. Built a one-room stone and adobe cabin, dug a well, bought a small bunch of cattle. He corralled them in a box canyon a mile from the cabin. Now known as the Buckley Peach Orchard.
In the fall of 1885, a band of 20-50 Apaches passed into southeastern Arizona by way of the San Bernardino Valley. Near the western entrance of Guadalupe Canon they split i to two bands. One group skirted the western flank of the Chiricahua's, the other, 12 males and one female, moved along the eastern side of the Dragoon's. The 13 killed a number of settlers in the area securing mounts and supplies.
On October 2, the band spirited away thirteen horses and four mules from Silas Bryant's ranch before moving onto Michael Noonan's ranch, four miles north of Middle Pass. Michael was shot in the chest at his doorway, finishing near his fireplace. They the. Took his livestock.
Many residents thought it may have been an act of revenge due to Michael shooting an Apache in a raid on his ranch in October 1881, when they killed 79 of his stock.
Daily Tombstone October 3, 1885...Paul McKnight, "Big Mike Noonan, Victim of Apache Terrorists in our Neighborhood", n.p., 2006
Described as a "big husky American-Irishman"
Naturalized at the end of 1877 in San Diego, California.
A hard-rock miner, worked at Signal Mine in Mojave county, accumulated a
stake and embarked in the cattle business in 1881.
A patch of ground at the foot of a southward trending spur of the Dragoon Mountains, near what is now called Grapevine Canyon. Built a one-room stone and adobe cabin, dug a well, bought a small bunch of cattle. He corralled them in a box canyon a mile from the cabin. Now known as the Buckley Peach Orchard.
In the fall of 1885, a band of 20-50 Apaches passed into southeastern Arizona by way of the San Bernardino Valley. Near the western entrance of Guadalupe Canon they split i to two bands. One group skirted the western flank of the Chiricahua's, the other, 12 males and one female, moved along the eastern side of the Dragoon's. The 13 killed a number of settlers in the area securing mounts and supplies.
On October 2, the band spirited away thirteen horses and four mules from Silas Bryant's ranch before moving onto Michael Noonan's ranch, four miles north of Middle Pass. Michael was shot in the chest at his doorway, finishing near his fireplace. They the. Took his livestock.
Many residents thought it may have been an act of revenge due to Michael shooting an Apache in a raid on his ranch in October 1881, when they killed 79 of his stock.
Daily Tombstone October 3, 1885...Paul McKnight, "Big Mike Noonan, Victim of Apache Terrorists in our Neighborhood", n.p., 2006
Naturalized at the end of 1877 in San Diego, California.
A hard-rock miner, worked at Signal Mine in Mojave county, accumulated a
stake and embarked in the cattle business in 1881.
A patch of ground at the foot of a southward trending spur of the Dragoon Mountains, near what is now called Grapevine Canyon. Built a one-room stone and adobe cabin, dug a well, bought a small bunch of cattle. He corralled them in a box canyon a mile from the cabin. Now known as the Buckley Peach Orchard.
In the fall of 1885, a band of 20-50 Apaches passed into southeastern Arizona by way of the San Bernardino Valley. Near the western entrance of Guadalupe Canon they split i to two bands. One group skirted the western flank of the Chiricahua's, the other, 12 males and one female, moved along the eastern side of the Dragoon's. The 13 killed a number of settlers in the area securing mounts and supplies.
On October 2, the band spirited away thirteen horses and four mules from Silas Bryant's ranch before moving onto Michael Noonan's ranch, four miles north of Middle Pass. Michael was shot in the chest at his doorway, finishing near his fireplace. They the. Took his livestock.
Many residents thought it may have been an act of revenge due to Michael shooting an Apache in a raid on his ranch in October 1881, when they killed 79 of his stock.
Daily Tombstone October 3, 1885...Paul McKnight, "Big Mike Noonan, Victim of Apache Terrorists in our Neighborhood", n.p., 2006
Inscription
Killed by indians
Gravesite Details
*Please note* The marker states year of death as 1888, but historical newspapers from Tombstone put year of death being 1885. Over the course of replacing the wooden markers, the year may have been accidentally changed. ,
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
